The Merlies, launching September 29 on PC, Mac, and Nintendo Switch, strips combat from the Metroidvania genre and replaces ...

Magical Blush, the top-down elemental Metroidvania from Brazilian indie Alkacer Game Studio, launched on PC at $14.99 on September 10, 2026, earning a perfect 100% positive score from its first 20 ...

Happy birthday, Metroid. Now let's all celebrate by forgetting the term "metroidvania" as thoroughly as we've all forgotten ...

Check out the Launch Trailer for Magical Blush, a top-down magic-based action Metroidvania developed by Alkacer Game Studio.

The original Metroid and Castlevania both turn 40 years old this fall. As the two series most responsible for creating the ...

Between bad concepts and inadequate executions, the Metroidvania genre is full of examples of how not to do a boss fight.

Already, players have noticed that protagonist Rose Belmont in Belmont’s Curse has access to tools both familiar and new to ...

The Castlevania series established a gaming genre tied the most to dark or atmospheric settings, a theme that one title ...

If you're tired of the typical recommendations, check out these ten Metroidvanias games most haven’t played, but definitely ...

Awita: Journey of Hope is a captivating side-scrolling metroidvania game that follows the remarkable journey of a courageous ...

Following the leak, prolific gaming journalists Tom Henderson and Jeff Grubb confirmed that they, too, have heard rumors about the God of War spinoff project. “Hearing a lot of scuttlebutt about the 2 ...

If there is one thing that people who make and play video games love more than video games, it’s labels. People love to label a game, to invent a genre, to categorize and sort and declare some kind of ...